The following extract describes the feelings of separation and exile that emerge following the quarantining of the city along with the debasement of language and the loss of memory as a resource for moral risk, change or challenge in the present.įrom now on, it can be said that plague was the concern of all of us.
It is a metaphor not only for Fascism but also for the collusion, passivity and resignation which embraces death in the institutionalisation of murder. Camus was drawn to exploring the source of that deep anguish and vulnerability at the heart of human existence our mortality.īut written in the wake of occupied France, The Plague is also a metaphor for the suffocation of human freedom in and by a political ideology intent on the systematic destruction of the other. Lasting for about a year the epidemic has a disrupting and disturbing effect on the lives and minds of its inhabitants. Translated from the French by Stuart GilbertĪlbert Camus’ La Peste or The Plague, written in 1947 is a fictional account of the sudden arrival and spread of bubonic plague in the Algerian town of Oran.
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